Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 25, 2014

Oh, Gunther, you doofus !!! ;)

Oye, Gunther, ¿les escuchas los compañeros de trabajo? (Hey, are you listening to the co-workers?)

If a person clears trees in a concrete and steel forest (the big city), and no one is there to share in it (the people that matter most to them), does that mean he did it for nothing?… – What Gunther doesn’t appreciate, though, is the positive aspect, that he did a good job with just the two of them… and now he can be on the verge of living his own life, and it’s not about not being needed by Mrs B… just about new people to need him, now…

good grief, man………………. he worries about stuff he should not worry about, and does not see what he has……….. and as I said, there are great universities in Lima of his chosen fields

SIGH!!!!

“The One That Got Away”“Forest For The Trees”“A Song For An Unsung Hero”“Peruvian Blind Spot”“Her Pat On The Back Is Worth Two And A Push”“Territories”“The Low Spark From High Tech Toys” “No Rest For The Weakened”“My Perpetual Peeve”“Weakened Warriors”or“Sitting On A Waterbed, With Nothing To Drink”

It will be interesting to see if Rosa tries to talk him out of the silliness he’s about to do… ;)

And it looks like they’re trying to fold them in….. – Hopefully , one of them will step outside of the box, if they want to have a good idea…

Say Gunther? Are ACTUALLY Getting PAID by Any of the So-Called Adults for the WORK You do around here???

Has it really come to this, Gunth? (sighs, sips coffee, sighs)- And is plan D, being the IT guy while Rosa answers calls? I mean good for Guenther, but Rosa must be miserable.

by fact that they do speak English, lot of the clients are probably foreigners, not locals

He’d better not check out Sophia’s tattoo, then…– The old standard “I Love Mom!” Tat during her Peruvian Naval tour.. last stop in the lounge at their Navy’s Visitor’s Gift Shop…

If Gunther is getting paid, then he’s violating his visa and can be deported. They are supposed to be volunteers.

Shouldn’t they all be speaking Spanish or at least sounding like Ricky Richardo? (Perhaps Evans is afraid of the Curse of Speedy Gonzalez? )

Gunther is telling Rosa to her face that he’s unneeded. So the only relationship that matters to Gunther is the one with his Mom, not with Rosa. That’s the cue to drive him to the airport and never see him again. Rosa. You picked a real loser and tried to make him into a boyfriend. It didn’t work, so give up.

ANd what exactly did you DO for your mom, Gunther?From what we’ve seen, you were a taker, not a giver.Not a burden, but you certainly didn’t contribute.

Even Volunteers max stay is 183 days per year

Ya know…considering this strip, Gunther needs to STAY PUT. He’s very successful where he is, and he’s even happy where he is.

Actually, it makes sense that at least some of the rich clientele at this plastic surgery clinic might be American or European rather than only Peruvians. Some society ladies probably choose to get their face lifts in South America, so that no one they know will see them until they have fully healed and then return home after their “vacation”, looking “refreshed”.

Geez – Gunther was visualizing just Mom and him tbe rest of his life??? Rosa – Save this guy!

Well, it is 11:00 pm here…time to find out where IS Katie is flopped, and put her to bed! I’ve got a few books I am reading; currently the best one I have is about the history of Sitcoms. And, on that note, ’Nite all!-——————————————————————-“now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.”(Don Marquis, 1878-1937)

Gunther, it’s time to stop thinking of your Mom as though you were still only four years old. Love her by letting her live her life and let Rosa provide you with all the s-mothering you want!

To put it In a way you’d understand Gunther, trip on the road not taken.

Mommy issues anyone?

This is like a Millennial wet dream. “Hey! I’m an 18-year-old high school graduate, but due to my mad computer skills, I can walk into a huge medical complex with a professional I.T. staff and immediately be recognized as an indispensible genius!”

“I need you, Gunther!”.“We ALL need you, Gunther!!!”

Gunther needs professional help.

“Without a piece of paper saying he has an IT degree he won’t be getting a job anywhere else.”.If he is going to conferences and has a bunch of people willing to testify to his knowledge and experience and work skills, then, YES he can find employment elsewhere. An he can always buy a degree for the ones who are too stupid to realize what the references are saying.

One thing wrong at home and now you wanna go running back? You can’t expect your Mom not to move on!! Jeez Gunther!!

the first indoor plumbing was as early as around 1500 BC!!! on the Crete empire and went from there to Northern Greek and was used extensively by the Roman empire, but don’t worry, the first toilet was as early as 3rd century BC so you ended up correct ,

Could use him where I work.

Hey Gunther! It’s called L*I*F*E! Get used to it!!

Wait…I thought he was a tailor. When he become a computer tech guy?

Maybe they will offer him a job. then the conflict of do I stay here or go home . will start?

Interesting that the background is darker in the Spanish version.

Okay, obviously Evans is a true moron as to how IT support works. I don’t care if this is comic; a kid just out of High School with no certification or IT experience would never be allowed to work on (especially a hospital’s) IT infrastructure. Quit being so delusional and making your characters to be these “super heroes”. First you make one out to be an unapologetic bitch that thinks she’s going to amount to something in politics; then you have someone that can only be described as a depressive slut, you’ve got a snake oil salesman who actually happens to be the only humanistic person in the strip… and now a KID that an entire hospital is relying on to keep their IT infrastructure running? I would say stick to teenage angst story arcs, but you can’t even have Guenther’s mom call her date by his first name! wth!?!??!?! Is that how you greeted your wife/significant other when you first met them?

“Gunther speaks Spanish…”————————————————————————Only in the Spanish language version of the strip…

I don’t think there’s any evidence that Evans does his own translations.He’s no Brooke McEldowney, after all.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both both became very successful entrepreneurs and billionaires without degrees. The field of IT is not like medicine or engineering, where a practitioner must have the paperwork that proves that critical training was undertaken…

Most successful IT divisions contain a number of people who learned their craft either in the military, or through on-the-job training. IT is changing every day, so whatever is taught in a university is obsolete before the newly minted grad hits the job market. The key to success appears to be the ability to learn very quickly and to see connections. That’s how my bro-in-law is doing it; his training was all in the military…

Since when has Gunther been computer savvy? I thought he just knew how to sew.

I redrew the panels just to get your attention. Good eye!

Are Both Gunther and Rosa sitting on pre-school chairs? The co-wokers tower over them looking over the cubical walls!! Isn’t Guther wasting his future/knowledge working for such a company?Love is not really blind for him either!!!

Gunter!!! Grow up !!! Let your Mother have a life !!!

“It’s the classic stereotype, the anti-social glasses wearing kid”.Not anti social, more like asocial, he don’t know how to interact good like us’ns do.Nonetheless, limitation to only one thing is not common even in the real world.

I know this is all just a story, a piece of fiction, but can you imagine being in Gunther’s shoes right now? Talk about possibilities for personal growth. Letting go, so his mom can have a real life. Letting go, so he could have one himself. What opportunity! Adventure! Wonder! Even if you weren’t, or were, young and in love, what a wonderful place-geographically and psychologically-in one’s life this could be. Youth—truly wasted on the young!

“The point is, yes, you can skate by without a degree in certain scenarios but almost always it catches up with you, and it’s risky not to get one.”.Of course, but the statement addressed was that he could not find employment elsewhere based on his experience here.That was incorrect.

It’s that magical Luannverse where you can work and study, (plot and scheme), showing no outward signs until it becomes useful as an Evans gag.

“we would have seen him do something with computers in the past 25+ years.”.Because we’ve seen everything he’s done in the past 25 years of his 18 years….

Sweet. But I bet Evans has not done much IT work.

I think that I got bleeped for suggesting that Rosa show Gunther what her needs were.

Night-Gaunt49,“it was Gunther as the IT guy who figured it out. That was years ago by our time.”.Good point and THAT was done onstage.

and countless times he has been shown good in math and doing calculations and I think he probably used computers at the library

Um someone needs a reality check…

She also needs him to fix the hem on her skirt.

http://amradaronline.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/infphoto_1338622.jpg no make up, still beautiful, you make it sound like she puts makeup same way as Tammy Faye Baker……………….. and Knute could be a good CEO of a manufacturing company of skateboards, and we already know he looks dashing in a suit

You don’t have to be an IT guy to look at a picture and wonder what’s in the reflection in the background, or to re-size a digital photo.Too many people who post selfies forget the background when they’re posting; like the one girl who posed topless on her bed with her framed diplomas, awards, and family holiday snaps on the wall behind her.

that is nothing, some women have posted naughty pictures without noticing that their toddler kid is in the background(or worse, not caring)

looks like I have to correct what lot of people think, the choice of career for Gunther is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_engineering ………………… NOT THIS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer

Never would have thought Gunther was so selfish.

None of this makes sense, and here we have the usual bootlickers giving themselves nosebleeds trying to make it make sense. Yes, keep explaining and explaining and explaining—-what I really want is apology after apology after apology for this terrible plot, Greg Evans!

Why should I feel sorry for Gunther? He’s 18 and lives in a whole other country and feels depressed because his mother just started dating? And his dad is out of the picture and/or dead? The only person whose life will be changed by Mrs Gunther’s Mom (first name: ?) dating is Quill, because he’ll want to make himself scarce before Mrs. No First Name and Mr. No First Name start cuddling on the couch while they watch nudity-ridden HBO programs.

Sheesh, my kids were more than happy to leave home. But for some reason, my pleas to help me find a nice old guy with independent means has never been answered….

Just a bit???

(navel:) Ha ha!!!!

I didn’t know Gunther had any computer skills.

“American Standard…” ^Then I am reminded of him, almost every day…..

In medical records, I would be making copies or faxes, and if a doctor comes up to use the machine, I have found some that become bewildered as soon as they walk up. And these are people paid to have a scalpel in their hands! I wonder if I could come up and work on a patient or two while I’m waiting for them to finish faxing or making copies at my copy station?

I don’t think Greg E. gives a flying fig about being a stilted comic-writer. He goes for gags and surprises. It seems like all you want to do is stuff him into your idea of being a comic artist. What is important is how he wants things to be in his Luannverse… ;)

Here’s what you don’t necessarily get. Some cartoonists don’t see themselves as writers. They are more into the graphic side of this kind of work. So they put more emphasis on ‘sight gags’ (what you are looking at) then they do on the narrative.-If you’ve ever read Non Sequiter on Gocomics, you’ll see that Wiley Miller will sometimes respond to comments. He is especially vocal over the issue of coloring the comic; he believes it destroys the cartoons by taking emphasis away from the line drawing. He considers cartoons to be an art, not a storyboard.-Maybe Evans is more about the art form, and less about the story.